The alleged mastermind of the April 14 twin bomb explosion
that killed over 75 persons and wounded 100 others at a crowded motor park in
Nyanya Abuja, Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche, has demanded the Federal Government to pay him
the sum of N100million as damages for unlawful detention.In a suit filed by his lawyer Mr. Ahmed Raji, SAN, he also
demanded a published apology in two national dailies.He also requested that the court should make an order
releasing him on bail and preventing the DSS from further arresting or
detaining him, or in the alternative charge him to court within 48 hours of the
court granting his orders. He argued that it was illegal for the DSS to still
retain the accused person in its custody without arranging him over the
commission of any act of criminality.Ogwuche insisted that his continued detention in the custody
of the Department of State Security, DSS, amounted to a gross abuse of his
fundamental human rights On November 24, the two-count charge brought against Ogwuche
was struck out by a Federal High Court in Abuja
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